Sujet : Re: Another security vulnerability
De : monnier (at) *nospam* iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 25. Mar 2024, 17:18:18
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID : <jwvedbygubo.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>
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Principle:: an Architecturally visible unit of data can only become
visible after the causing instruction retires. A high precision timer
makes cache line [dis]placement visible; so either take away the HPT
or don't alter cache visible state too early.
And parallelism (e.g. multicores) can be used to emulate HPT, so "take
away the HPT" is not really an option.
Stefan